Director of Engineering - Applied AI

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
In-Office
Senior level
Software
The Role
Leads and grows an engineering team responsible for Flow’s AI-native requirements platform. Owns product execution from customer scoping through iteration, makes architecture decisions, reviews code, contributes hands-on, establishes engineering practices, and partners with recruiting. The role directs development of agentic workflows and LLM-powered features while collaborating with product, design, customers, and forward-deployed engineers.
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About Flow

Flow Engineering is an AI-native requirements platform for modern engineering organizations, enabling hardware teams to collaborate with AI agents to design, validate, and evolve complex systems with speed and rigor.

About the role

Flow is seeking a senior engineering manager to lead a team building the core of our platform. This is our first dedicated engineering management hire, and you will own delivery for a team of engineers while staying hands on with coding.

You will report to our head of engineering and work closely with product, design, and our forward deployed engineers.

What you'll do

  • Manage and grow a team of engineers, owning onboarding, feedback, and career development.

  • Own product execution end to end, from scoping with customers through ship, measure, and iterate.

  • Stay technical. Review code, make architecture calls, and pick up meaningful work when a project needs it.

  • Help establish engineering best practices

  • Work directly with customers. Our users are systems and requirements engineers at hardware companies with a high bar

  • Partner with recruiting to build the team

  • Help set direction on how AI shows up in the product, working with engineers building agentic workflows and LLM-powered features.

About you

  • 8+ years developing production software, including designing, testing, and operating services at scale in a cloud environment.

  • 2+ years managing engineers, ideally at an early-stage company or somewhere with little existing process scaffolding.

  • Track record shipping software that enterprise customers depend on, with a clear understanding of what that changes about how you build.

  • Still hands on with coding

  • Direct communicator who is able to give difficult feedback

  • Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment where experiments and iteration are the norm.

Nice to have

  • Background in aerospace, defense, automotive, or another regulated hardware domain.

  • Experience with requirements, ALM, PLM, or systems engineering tooling.

  • Experience managing teams building LLM-powered or agentic features in production.

Our stack

  • TypeScript/Node.js and Python for backend and AI services.

  • Modern LLM APIs and orchestration libraries for building agentic workflows.

  • Postgres and other managed cloud services for data and state.

Skills Required

  • 8+ years developing production software, including designing, testing, and operating cloud services at scale
  • 2+ years managing engineers
  • Current hands-on coding experience
  • Experience shipping software relied upon by enterprise customers
  • Ability to communicate directly and provide difficult feedback
  • Comfort working in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment
  • Background in aerospace, defense, automotive, or another regulated hardware domain
  • Experience with requirements, ALM, PLM, or systems engineering tooling
  • Experience managing teams building LLM-powered or agentic features in production
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
14 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Systems engineering is broken. Despite their desperation, engineers' tools are stuck in the dark ages. Engineers are forced to use Word documents and email to stay on the same page, with no real way to collaborate and iterate designs together. Our mission is to vastly accelerate hardware design by building software tools that accelerate the baseline engineering process worldwide. Our product, Flow, is a requirements tool, built for agile teams, that helps teams to bring products to market faster by seamlessly integrating and synchronising their engineering models. Flow is helping teams design their next-generation products, from heavy-duty hydrogen-powered trucks, Electric Vehicles for inner cities, to satellites and rockets. Flow has raised over $9M in Seed funding. Our investors include EQT Ventures, and former C-level execs and leaders from Microsoft, SAP and Unity.

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